The lifeless body of a newborn baby girl was found this morning among the rocks at Villa San Giovanni, in the province of Reggio Calabria, near the ferry landing stages for Sicily. The body of the little girl, probably recently delivered, was inside a plastic bag in turn contained in a backpack and still had the umbilical cord attached. The police are investigating the incident
It was a fisherman who spotted the backpack, abandoned among the rocks, not far from the Pezzo dock. The man immediately notified the State Police and officers from the Villa San Giovanni police station and the Reggio Calabria flying squad intervened on site and informed the magistrate on duty. The scientific police also intervened at the site of the discovery and are carrying out the investigations. It would appear that the backpack was taken to the rocks by land a few hours after giving birth. Probably, according to the somatic features of the newborn, the mother is a foreign woman.
The prosecutor’s office has opened a case, currently against unknown persons: it will be decisive establish whether the baby was stillborn or if she was abandoned while still alive. A fact that will allow the charge to be established.
